Sephora

Back in 1992, I was disappointed with Alien 3. Expecting another tension-filled action flick, I got a slow-moving film that expanded the fiction but didn’t particularly grab me the way the previous ones had. It was a decent movie but it failed to live up to the past two’s standards. (Let’s ignore the Dumpster fire that is Alien: Resurrection.)

Fast-forward more than 20 years later and those hoping for a real sequel to Aliens may finally have their prayers answered. Thanks to Gearbox Software, gamers will have an opportunity to go back to LV-426 and the warship Sulaco. Taking place 17 weeks after the events of the James Cameron film, Aliens: Colonial Marines puts players in the role of Col. Christopher Winter who is aboard the Sephora.

They’re responding to the distress signal sent out by Corporal Hicks in Aliens. They arrive to see the Sulaco still orbiting the planet for some reason, and it’s the location for one of the two levels that I played during a preview event last week in San Francisco. Winter and his comrades board the derelict ship only to find out that the Weyland-Yutani corporation has taken over it. They were using it as some kind of lab.